Kurt Vonnegut's Letter to John F. Kennedy, Ben Percy On Werewolves, and more

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:

A scholar in Kent, England,discovered a lost poem by Vita Sackville-West—the English writer most famous for her affair with Virginia Woolf—when it fell out of a book in Sackville-West’s library. The poem was addressed to another mistress, the writer Violet Trefusis. (The Guardian)

On the topic of discoveries, the Guardian has also revealed that Winnie the Pooh author and pacifist AA Miline was recruited to serve as a secret propaganda writer during World War I.

Reader Comments

Vonnegut’s zany and surreal world reflects the absurdity of our own and really bent my mind to different modes of thinking. His work has inspired my own visual arts for quite some time and I created a tribute illustration of the author with the help of an old typewriter. You can see it at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-mr-vonnegut.html and tell me how his work and words also affected you.